Services
CPL recognizes that communities’ needs vary. Therefore, while some themes certainly emerge that will transform any educational setting in service of nontraditional learners, we will also customize our approach and recommendations after consultation with relevant stakeholders (i.e. learners, educators, leadership) in each community we partner with.
Understanding Nontraditional Learners
Your team wants to serve 100% of your students, but some of them are “slipping through the cracks,” and you’re not sure what to do! CPL’s primary mission is to help education stakeholders assess, understand, and innovate solutions to meet the learning needs of students who fall outside of the traditional sphere of success. We will help you learn about your nontraditional learners’ needs, dismantle personal deficit models that may be hindering progress towards equity, overcome power differentials, develop creative solutions to meet learners where they are, and ultimately expand the sphere of success at your institution.
Topics that may emerge from initial consultation include:
High School Equivalency Programming
Competency-Based Learning
Trauma-Informed Educational Practices
Social-Emotional Learning
Restorative Practices
Literacy Across the Curriculum
The Writing Process
Personal vs. Institutional Deficit Models
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Inclusivity
Flexible Scheduling
Self-Paced Learning
Process-Oriented vs. Product-Oriented Learning
Implicit Bias
Equity in Assessment
Personalized vs. Individualized Learning
Healing from School-Based Trauma
The Impact of Power Differentials
The Sphere of Success